Pray for Clarity

Those girls also prayed at dawn, and those boys also prayed for tomorrow under the shining stars. She traced the same name on the scratch paper one stroke after another until the pen tip scratched the paper. She was always looking forward to things that didn't belong to her in the first place. It wasn't until the bell pierced the dawn and she woke up from her dream that she realized that from beginning to end, she got what she deserved, but what about her? Time and time again, I dreamed of crawling out of the care, and when I looked back, there was a desert behind me.